>> good morning, everyone. this meeting exactly to order and welcome to the july 19th rules of the rules committee. i'm supervisor ahsha safai and to pie left is committee member, supervisor catherine stefani. our clerk today is victor young and i'd like to thank jim smith and mr. hernandez for staffing this meeting. >> clerk: please make sure to silence all cellphones and electronic devices and give any copies of documents to be included to the clerk. anitems acted today is on the agenda unless otherwise stated. >> thank you, mr. clerk, call item number one. >> clerk: to amend the charter

of the city and county of san francisco to have a privacy first policy at an election to be held on november 6, 2018. >> supervisor safai: thank you. and i hand this over to supervisor aaron peskin and this is his initiative. >> i'll be brief because you all considered this at your last meeting and thank you for scheduling a special meeting so that this can be forwarded to the full board. and thank you for adopting the amendments that i brought before the committee at your last meeting. there's just one outstanding issue which does not require an amendment, but i'd like to address it which was brought to our attention in the last week. that's around what it means for a law or regulation to be privacy protective such that it would trigger review of the principles set forth in this privacy charter amendment. and after discussing it with the city attorney the possibility that this could be used to limit applicability everthe principles

which was the concern expressed in my office i again want to point to sub-section j which explicitly states that this privacy first policy is not intended in any manner to limit the power of the city to protect privacy by adopting laws, regulations, policies and practices within -- with the city's power, whether or not it's specified in the charter amendment. again, the intent here when we talk about privacy protective laws and regulations is actually to capture any law or regulation that implicates private information collection, storage, or use or other processing. a lot of this will play out as we discussed last week in the trailing legislation developed in concert with the city administrator's office as set forth in the charter amendment, sub-section f, and i'm looking forward to developing that policy with my colleagues and the city admin straighter's office. with that, committee members, i respectfully ask for your vote to forward this matter to the full board where it will have to

sit for a week before we can vote on it and hopefully send it to the ballot. >> supervisor safai: we have any members of the public that wish to comment? seeing none public comment is closed. great. so i guess that i'd like to entertain a motion. >> (indiscernible). >> supervisor safai: do we do it not as a committee report -- oh, no, it goes as a committee report, right, and allow it to sit there for one week? >> clerk: yes, i believe that we do have that -- >> deputy city attorney general john gibner. it's been ajendized as a committee report and so you can send it as a committee report and that allows the board to pass it out on july 24th which is the deadline for charter amendments.

and you could pass it out on the 31st which does not require a committee report. >> supervisor safai: so we'll have recommendations, yes, as a committee report. and without objection that is ordered. >> thank you, colleagues. >> clerk: call item february 2. >> clerk: approving and rejecting the mayor's reappointment of ann lazarus to the board of appeals for a term ending july 1, 2022. >> supervisor safai: great. thank you, mr. clerk. unless there's any initial comments from colleagues i'd like to hear from our applicant, miss ann lazarus for reappointment to the board ofa, peels, term ending july 1, 2022. >> ahsha safai and supervisor stefani. i would like you to meet the executive director and we went through a transition this career and we're fortunate to identify

miss rosenburg and i'm happy to have her with us. she's really the frontline for the appellant and the respondents and makes our job easy. so with that, speaking of doing the job, i've had the honour and the principl privilege of servis board now for six years. i have feel that i have at this point gotten some sea legs with the myriad of issues that come before us. and i believe that that experience has helped me in the process. i do believe that i brought diligence to the process. i have learned that what you see in the written material is not always what you get and that it's equally important to listen to what appellants and respondents have to say during the procedures. and try to come to an equitable decision that is reflective of our governing codes, ordinances, regulation. so i would very much like to

have one more term on this board to continue serving the city in this capacity. and with that i am happy to answer any questions. >> supervisor safai: catherine stefani? no questions. we had a good conversation in my office and i asked a lot of question there is and we talked about the ability of commissioners to kind of think about things that might help to facilitate the process and speed up the review and so on. and you answered those questions great. i think that you've served diligently as you said on the board of appeals. it's not easy much oftentimes you're dealing with rear yard decks or small additions to people's homes, but they are very important to the surrounding neighbours and it causes a lot of angst and consternation and you have handled that very well and i'm happy to reappoint you. so i'd like a motion. >> yes, i'd like to forward this motion to the full board with positive recommendations and

amend the motion, reject to take out the language rejecting the mayoral appointment. >> supervisor safai: right. term ends july 1, 2022. wonderful, congratulations, commissioner. >> thank you very much, i appreciate your support. >> supervisor safai: oh, i'm sorry, we have to take public comment. any members of the public wish to comment on this item, come forward. seeing none, public comment is closed. so the motion stands as propos proposed. >> clerk: the motion is approved and there' it's going e forwarded to the board of supervisors with recommendation to approve. >> supervisor safai: congratulations. please call the next item. >> clerk: item three is to have a initiative ordinance promoting the identification and conservation of city resources using to assist in the enforcement or implementation of discriminatory federal laws or

policies. >> supervisor safai: wonderful. mr. clerk, supervisor ronen has a notice on july 11, 2018, withdrawing her signature from the file. 180668. so we'll still be taking public comment. any members of the public wish to comment on this item, please come forward. you have two minutes. >> i'm just wondering if it's at all possible to amend the item so that it just -- sorry -- discriminatory laws or policies and not just limiting them to any federal laws or policies. and you might find discriminatory. >> supervisor safai: thank you. any other members of the public wish to comment on this item, come forward. seeing none, public comment is closed. okay, so, colleagues, i'll make a motion to file the letter withdrawing this item from the november 5, 2018 ballot.

we can do that without objection. the motion was to file the letter withdrawing the item from the november 5, 2018. okay, we can do that without objection. mr. clerk, do we have anymore business before us today. >> clerk: that completes the agenda for us today. >> supervisor safai: okay, we are adjourned. oh. it was quick. (♪) .

>> my name is angela wilson and i'm an owner of the market i worked at a butcher for about 10 years and became a butcher you i was a restaurant cook started in sxos and went to uc; isn't that so and opened a cafe we have produce from small farms without small butcher shops hard for small farms to survive we have a been a butcher shop since 1901 in the heights floor and the case are about from 1955 and it is only been a butcher shot not a lot of businesses if san francisco that have only been one thing.

>> i'm all for vegetarians if you eat meat eat meat for quality and if we care of we're in a losing battle we need to support butcher shops eat less we sell the chickens with the head and feet open somebody has to make money when you pay $25 for a chicken i guarantee if you go to save way half of the chicken goes in the enlarge but we started affordable housing depends on it occurred to us this is a male field people said good job even for a girl the interesting thing it is a women's field in most of world just here in united states it is that pay a man's job i'm an encountered woman and raise a son and teach i am who respect

woman i consider all women's who work here to be impoverished and strong in san francisco labor is high our cost of good ideas we seal the best good ideas the profit margin that low but everything that is a laboring and that's a challenge in the town so many people chasing money and not i can guarantee everybody this is their passion. >> i'm the - i've been cooking mile whole life this is a really, really strong presence of women heading up kitchens in the bay area it is really why i moved out here i think that we are really strong in the destroy and really off the pages kind of thing i feel like women befrp helps us to get back up

i'm definitely the only female here i fell in love i love setting up and love knowing were any food comes from i do the lamb and that's how i got here today something special to have a female here a male dominated field so i think that it is very special to have women and especially like it is going at it you know i'm a tiny girl but makes me feel good for sure. >> the sad thing the building is sold i'm renegotiating my lease the neighborhood wants us

to be here with that said, this is a very difficult business it is a constant struggle to maintain freshness and deal with what we have to everyday it is a very high labor of business but something i'm proud of if you want to get a job at affordable housing done nasal you need a good attitude and the jobs on the bottom you take care of all the produce and the fish and computer ferry terminal and work your way up employing people with a passion for this and empowering them to learn

>> supervisor kim: good morning. thank you for your patience as we waited to get on line. welcome to the treasure island mobility management agency. alberto quintanilla is our clerk. i want to acknowledge sfgov tv for broadcasting the meeting. mr. clerk, can you please call the roll? [roll call]

>> clerk: we have a quorum. >> supervisor kim: thank you so much. i will begin with the chair's report today. and i just want to highlight recently as we test out different technologies on treasure island that the metropolitan transportation commission, which i also sit on, effort to update the clipper transit fare payment system. clipper has made great strides in integrating bay area operator transit fares to a single fare card but the system is decades old and in need of renewal and enhancement. clipper 2.0 is a critical opportunity to achieve excellent customer service experience, bring technology to transportation payment and improve administrative effiency for operators and agencies including timma. as we move forward with the next generation of clipper, we need to ensure that clipper 2.0 will be nimble and advance forward. new york city, who is going through a similar process, has chosen to do away with paper

tickets altogether and introducing a mobile option for phones as well. los angeles is piloting a platform that allows passengers to pay transit and toll with a single account. we want a system that is able to integrate with other transportation services. i want to urge us to help ensure clipper incorporates the innovative ideas and ensures seamless transitions between multiple modes of transportation. i look forward to working with my colleagues here at mtc to look at clipper 2.0 and making transit more convenience and affordable for current and future residents alike. i want to -- i apologize, mr. clerk. could you call items 2 and 3. >> clerk: item 2, chair's report, information item. item 3, executive director report, information item. >> supervisor kim: i would like to bring up our deputy director to present. >> good morning, eric cordoba,

area director capital project. happy to deliver the executive director's report. let's start with the good news, regional measure 3 has been approved. that's good news for timma, especially when it comes to a potential $300 million ready and available for ferry, transportation, capital projects across the region, including treasure island. we expect funding will be available in early 2019 and we look forward to working with mtc and the water emergency transportation authority on accessing this prague rachlt let's move on to the regional mobility as service opportunities. we've had discussions and participating with mtc and the bay area transit agencies related to the clipper fare payment system that you just mentioned. the clipper -- there's a clipper executive board that oversees the system's next generation

upgrade known as c2. the clipper executive board discusses the role of the clipper system in supporting mobility as a service or moss. you will hear a lot of that term here over the next couple of years. month is an alternative to vehicle ownership where people can access shared mobility, with trip planning, payment and navigation. timma staff will participate in follow-up discussions in that regard. we provided a letter of support just recently to the contra costa transportation authority for an application for federal transportation management, technologies, grant funds. the grant award would support the region alamos platform with initial deployment in contra costa. let's move on to water transportation, which is a major potential benefit here for the island. and that we as staff are

starting it focus on. at its march 1, 2018, meeting, we authorized staff to proceed with an exploratory study of smaller vessel explorations. they would look at the cleaner vessels delivered relatively quickly for initial service for locations such as treasure island. from our perspective, treasure island is probably one of the optimum locations to have a pilot in that regard. if you have had the opportunity to move back and forth between treasure island and the ferry building, it's only about a 10- to 12-minute run, so we think there's a lot of opportunity here. the study will be overseen by a committee of the board comprised of directors. we're working actively with a scope of work that includes treasure island as a case study for smaller vessel service and

will participate on the technical staff advisory committee. let's move on to federal highway administration. national congestion pricing conference. there's a spotlight on treasure island. fhwa invited staff to present at the pricing conference at the u.s. department of transportation in washington, d.c. there was on may 22 and 23. the conference covered a range of pricing strategies, for example, managed lanes, computer incentives and parking, pricing. principal planner rachel hyatt presented on overhaul of housing, pricing, travel demand management. the conference host has provided funding for timma policy analysis in the 2013-2016 time frame. moving on to local issues, we're right now actually planning a tour of the island for the commissioners. we had hoped to do it this week.

the weather looked like it was going to cooperate, but we'll go ahead and do it a different day. so we'll work with your schedules, to do that, commissioner ronen, as requested. next item, advanced transportation and technology deployment. once again, the grant as reported, sfmta and sfcta have been awarded $10.99 million. of that total, $5 million is being utilized by timma and will support the toll system design and implementation. $300,000 will support the piloting of an autonomous circulator shuttle on the island. at its june 29, timma meeting, we provided an update on grant award and are ready to move forward with utilization of of funds and are excited to that opportunity. related to that, staff will speak at the upcoming automated vehicle symposium scheduled for

july 9-12. the annual symposium is organized by the national transportation research board and so hes yugs for unmanned vehicle systems international. on the project delivery front, as it relates to construction here, there are numerous construction projects that are just starting right now on yerba buena island. let's talk first about what was recently completed. as you all know, the efforts that we led the i-80 westbound on and off ramps is complete. also completed vista point. we're working to make the vista point facility permanent. so working with mtc in that regard and also with the u.s. coast guard. we're really excited about that opportunity. future projects include mccalla road widening. and moving on to the next phase of work, the i-80 south gate

road project, which we hope to bring to construction in spring, 2019, which transportation authority will lead. and, finally, to complete the roadway network, the west side bridges, retrofit of seismically 7 deficient bridges on the western slope of the island. we want to brung that to construction in 2020 time frame with the goal of having all of the major roadway infrastructure completed by the summer of 2021, including the toling systems as well as enhanced transit, a.c. transit, and in particular initial ferry service. so that's the goal. a lot ahead of us over the next three years. and i'm happy to answer any questions that you might have. >> supervisor kim: all right. at this time, see nog questions for mr. cordoba, we'll open up

for public comment on items 2 and 3. seeing no public comment, public comment is now closed. mr. clerk, can you please call item 4. >> clerk: approve the minutes of the january 23, 2018, meeting. this is an action meeting. >> supervisor kim: do we have a motion? a motion from sheehy and seconded by fewer. at this time, open up for public comment on item 4. seeing no public comment on item 4, public comment is closed. can we take a roll call, please, on item 4? [roll call] >> clerk: we have approval. >> supervisor kim: thank you. would you please call items 5

and 6 together? >> clerk: item 5, amend adopted fiscal year 2017/18 to decrease revenues annex pend tours by $2.1 million, action item. item 6, adopt the proposed fiscal year 2018/19 annual budget and work program. this is an action item. >> supervisor kim: thank you. i want to bring up cynthia fong, deputy finance administration to present on the adopted proposed budget amendments. that's what's in my agenda. if it's not you, i can call up somebody else. >> cynthia fong, deputy director finance administration. both items were in past timma meetings. if it's the desire it have a full presentation, staff is more than happy to, otherwise, i can take any questions that you have on this item. >> supervisor kim: seeing no questions, we have the annual budget and work program action time. and eric cordoba is available to

answer any questions that committee members might have on this item. >> if there are any questions, eric and i are here to answer them. >> supervisor kim: all right. seeing no questions. at this time, open up for public comment on items 5 and 6. see nog public comment, public item is closed. can we take 5 and 6, same house, same call? we do that without opposition. mr. clerk, can you please call item 7. >> clerk: authorize executive director to accept on the treasure island mobility management agency's behalf all interests real property action. >> supervisor kim: any questions? we'll open it up for public comment? seeing no public comment, close public comment. can we take this same house, same call? without opposition. can you please call 8 and 9.

>> clerk: item 8, introduction of new items. item 9, public comment. >> supervisor kim: any new items? seeing none, we'll open it up for public comment for 8 and general public comment. seeing no public comment, we'll close for 8 and 9. mr. clerk, are there any other items before this committee? >> clerk: item 10, adjournment. >> supervisor kim: meeting is adjourned.

>> hi. welcome to san francisco. stay safe and exploring how you can stay in your home safely after an earthquake. let's look at common earthquake myths. >> we are here at the urban center on mission street in san francisco. we have 3 guest today. we have david constructional engineer and bill harvey. i want to talk about urban myths. what do you think about earthquakes, can you tell if they are coming in advance? >> he's sleeping during those

earthquakes? >> have you noticed him take any special? >> no. he sleeps right through them. there is no truth that i'm aware of with harvey that dogs are aware of an impending earthquake. >> you hear the myth all the time. suppose the dog helps you get up, is it going to help you do something >> i hear they are aware of small vibrations. but yes, i read extensively that dogs cannot realize earthquakes. >> today is a spectacular day in san francisco and sometimes people would say this is earthquake weather. is this earthquake weather? >> no. not that i have heard of. no such thing. >> there is no such thing. >> we are talking about the

weather in a daily or weekly cycle. there is no relationship. i have heard it's hot or cold weather or rain. i'm not sure which is the myth. >> how about time of day? >> yes. it happens when it's least convenient. when it happens people say we were lucky and when they don't. it's terrible timing. it's never a good time for an earthquake. >> but we are going to have one. >> how about the ground swallowing people into the ground? >> like the earth that collapsed? it's not like the tv shows. >> the earth does move and it

bumps up and you get a ground fracture but it's not something that opens up and sucks you up into haddes. >> it's not going anywhere. we are going to have a lot of damage, but this myth that california is going to the ocean is not real. >> southern california is moving north. it's coming up from the south to the north. >> you would have to invest the million year cycle, not weeks or years. maybe millions of years from now, part of los angeles will be in the bay area. >> for better or worse. >> yes. >> this is a tough question. >> those other ones weren't

tough. >> this is a really easy challenge. are the smaller ones less stress? >> yes. the amount released in small earthquakes is that they are so small in you need many of those. >> i think would you probably have to have maybe hundreds of magnitude earthquakes of 4.7. >> so small earthquakes are not making our lives better in the future? >> not anyway that you can count on. >> i have heard that buildings in san francisco are on rollers and isolated? >> it's not true. it's a conventional foundation like almost all the circumstances

buildings in san francisco. >> the trans-america was built way before. it's a pretty conventional foundation design. >> i have heard about this thing called the triangle of life and up you are supposed to go to the edge of your bed to save yourself. is there anything of value to that ? >> yes, if you are in your room. you should drop, cover and hold onto something. if you are in school, same thing, kitchen same thing. if you happen to be in your bed, and you rollover your bed, it's not a bad place to be. >> the reality is when we have a major earthquake the ground shaking so pronounced that you are not going to be able to get up and go anywhere. you are pretty much staying where you are when that earthquake hits.

you are not going to be able to stand up and run with gravity. >> you want to get under the door frame but you are not moving to great distances. >> where can i buy a richter scale? >> mr. richter is selling it. we are going to put a plug in for cold hardware. they are not available. it's a rather complex. >> in fact we don't even use the richter scale anymore. we use a moment magnitude. the richter scale was early technology. >> probably a myth that i hear most often is my building is just fine in the loma prieta earthquake so everything is fine. is that true ?

>> loma prieta was different. the ground acceleration here was quite moderate and the duration was moderate. so anyone that believes they survived a big earthquake and their building has been tested is sadly mistaken. >> we are planning for the bigger earthquake closer to san francisco and a fault totally independent. >> much stronger than the loma prieta earthquake. >> so people who were here in '89 they should say 3 times as strong and twice as long and that will give them more of an occasion of the earthquake we would have. 10 percent isn't really the threshold of damage. when you triple it you cross

that line. it's much more damage in earthquake. >> i want to thank you, harvey, thanks pat for >> all in favor? [voting] >> i make a motion that we don't reveal anything that we talked about in closed session. >> i second?

>> all in favor? [voting] >> okay. pledge of allegiance. [pledge of allegiance] >> clerk: please be advised that the ringing of and use of cell phones, pagers and other similar sound producing devices are prohibited in this meeting. please be advised that the chair may order anyone removed from the room by the use of cell phones, pages or other similar sound producing device. public comment on items not listed on the agenda. >>